Puzzle adventure game “Fract” mixes “Myst,” “Rez” and “Tron”

On the first day of the annual Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, independent game maker Richard Flanagan of Montreal on Monday gave the audience a rundown of what he’s had to endure, both professionally and personally, in his pursuit of developing his first video game, called “Fract OSC.”

Our story in Tuesday’s Business section will have more details of Flanagan’s inspiring tale, but you can see a preview of the game in the above video, which was produced by Flanagan and his three-employee company, Phosfiend Systems Inc. To read the full story, click here.

In the video, Flanagan describes the first-person puzzle-adventure game – which is still in development – as “kind of like ‘Myst’ meets ‘Rez’ meets ‘Tron,’ and it’s set in a weird, broken down abstract world. Everything is built on sounds and structures inspired by electronic music.”